Elon Musk

my parents forester doesn't have a power liftgate but i've thought about installing an aftermarket one

https://i.imgur.com/SyBlcwL.png

one of this guy's many issues seems to be that he trusts basically no one who works for him

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/1cnp13y/elon_himself_wtf/

My Ford Escape's gate definitely goes back up if it encounters anything even slightly wrong (i.e., like the cargo mat sticking out or something). It's a mild inconvenience when this happens because it is very slow to do so, but I'd rather that than someone be physically injured. I accidentally slammed my daughter's finger in the trunk (of a different car with a manual trunk) when she was a toddler and, while she was okay after an hour or two of ice pack applications, it really sucked.

i dont like the experience of the computer hatchback but i guess it is safer, unless its telsa

Like iPhones vs flip-phones and landlines, the lack of an angry slamming option is a drawback to computer hatchbacks. Jabbing the down button and then standing there for a minute while it closes just isn't the same.

xps at caek: compressing a little means it's not meeting enough resistance to stop, right? the resistance threshold is just higher than zero

the reason you don't want it to keep retrying (and definitely not retry HARDER) is the same reason a powered garage door opener will stop and go back up if it hits something. you could be crushing a person

eh, I have no idea what I'm talking about. my point is that these things are tuned to overcome greater than *zero* resistance. doing that does involve the force they exert increasing momentarily (physics).

a car boot door is just one of those things that doesn't need to be automated imo, you can just shut it yourself

my last old banger had an "automatic" hand-brake that was just the biggest pain-in-the-ass, burned out a clutch trying to find the bite point with it while doing a hill-start, a manual hand-brake would have been so much better.

everything in a car doesn't need to be automated imo

Our kids are old enough now that it’s less of an issue but power tailgate was absolutely one of the reasons we upgraded a trim level, and we used it a lot when they were smaller.

my dad's old and got shoulder pain so closing the liftgate isn't fun for him

the only downside our autoliftgates is that sometimes the safety and locking systems are inscrutable and i cannot get the back up without like, turning off the car. but not always. i'm sure it's in the manual, and there's some toggle somewhere, but what a stupid pia.

in this old's opinion you should be able to open the liftgate while doing 75mph on I70 so your accomplice can push the body or contraband out the back without stopping or slowing

so I guessed the stock market would do two dumb things following the news that Tesla had bought some lidar units from a smaller vendor:
- that vendor's stock would jump for the day, then settle back down after people realized it's just a small company and there wasn't that much money involved
- the larger lidar vendors would then go up a couple days later, after people remembered lidar is a thing and some larger companies actually sell a lot of the tech

no way am I going to start regularly day trading but... yup

🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
out on the road today
i saw a deadhead sticker
on a cyber truck
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

(field report c/o t.volk) pic.twitter.com/U9gcKKjaq2

— joel berk (@pfcidb) May 8, 2024

obvious shop

Don’t stare too long or you’ll die of the cringe

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C53WgcFMVNf/?igsh=MXNjcHZ6ZWRrOTYwdw==

(xxp) don't look back you can never look back... because there's no rear visability in these things

my friend has a Tesla and just started using the self-driving and he brought me and another friend in the car while it drove us to a destination 5 minutes away.

it did ok, I never felt my life was in danger, but it definitely got confused once or twice and did stop dead in the middle of a lane because it temporarily didn't know where it was

it did have the wheel nag and he even talked about it but fuckin christ even w/ that I was a little on edge lol.

wish Musk would just go into a coma or something

wow i don’t know how i would handle that situation

“got confused once or twice and did stop dead in the middle of a lane because it temporarily didn't know where it was”

daaaah wes joe biden driving you ppl dont have a problem when it’s him daah

sorry i need a break from like everything

i think stopping in the middle of the road qualifies as putting yr life in danger

well in that moment, not so much as it was a road with no vehicles traveling on it on a weeknight. but certainly if it HAD been a weekend, yeah, different story.

anywho now that I appeased him w/ that I will never get in that car again lol

co-lol

other than the random stopping, I think they're also still good at turning on to wide shared bike/walking lanes parallel to the road

If cyclists and pedestrians don't want to be hit by cars, they should move to states without roads or pavement.

was this posted yet? (insider dunking from former employee)
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1cpyi2j/i_was_in_tesla_design_studio_back_in_20162017_i/

“Typically at Tesla the driver was considered the priority, they would only try to comply with the absolutely necessary standards required for everyone else sharing the road.”

well, yeah

Motorists do not have a constitutional right to not be run over. Seriously look it up guys.

Our cars are returning things to the way the Framers wanted it

tempted to gis “suv horse drawn carriage” but nah

Head of cybertruck production is out:
https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/tesla-head-of-cybertruck-manufacturing-out/

haha good luck to everyone

Tesla’s automotive business, including charging and manufacturing, as well as new product launches, took the biggest hit as Elon Musk appears to be transitioning Tesla away from its EV manufacturing roots to focus on autonomous driving products.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-superchargers-rehiring-laid-off-staff-amid-new-plans/

...lol

wonder how much extra tesla are having to pay the sacked supercharger team to come back after shitcanning them so ignominiously

elon musk really is the devil in the sense that people have made a deal with him

https://i.imgur.com/3YuyqfD.png

gotta have a based robot in there

Almost forgot not all his tweets are just quote-replying 'True.' or 'Interesting.' to whiny white supremacist grievances and completely made up allegations against political opponents.

concerning!

lol... now who would do such a thing?

Several vehicles at the Tesla factory in Fremont have been vandalized, according to the Fremont Police Department. On Monday at around 2:30 a.m., Fremont PD were dispatched to a location on the 45000 block of Fremont Boulevard where the factory is located.

There were reports, police said, of numerous vehicles having been vandalized. At the scene, officers learned that several parked vehicles had sustained damage to their tires.

Fremont PD is actively investigating the incident.

shoulda just put them all in carwash mode

Ooopsies. Funny thing is, it's not just the ex-employees who would be motivated to do this, but like the entire population of the Bay Area

Yeah, hopefully he puts up a big whiny stink about this and inspires even more people to vandalize teslas

Keep Bender's name out of your fucking mouth, Elon!

lol

The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.

After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk would affirm plans for a massive charging-network expansion.

The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html

that seems less like bad business acumen and more like someone on a bizarre drugsblasted business holiday

I don’t see why there has to be an exclusive binary there